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Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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When i criticize communicators for relying on the absurdity heristic too much, it's because they're claiming to adjudicate a question with people on both sides. If nobody's ever heard of niom, and i expect my readers to immediately agree that niom is absurd, then it's fine in a post describing niom, rather than debating it, to stop at the first level. The only way to escape of a formal system with official axioms is to just trust your own intuitive judgment at some point. Eliazr yutkowski gives his answer here: How do you avoid being that guy? Some people try to dodge the question and say that all rationality is basically a social

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